7186 (Jamaican Country Sign Language)

{

id: 7186,
code_val: "jcs",
code_authorities: "ISO 639-3",
primary_name: "Jamaican Country Sign Language",
alternate_names: "Konchri Sain; Country Sign;",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Sign Language; Mexican, Central American, or Caribbean",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
language: {
- code_id: 7186,
- featured: 0,
- cached_documentation_score: -1,
- google_group_url: "",
- simplified_level: "mid",
- coordinates: "18.00, -76.93",
- updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:35",
- speaker_attitude: "Country Sign users see their sign language as beautiful and have positive attitudes toward their unique language and community.",
- government_support: null,
- institutional_support: null,
- _other_languages_used: "Jamaican Sign Language; ASL; Signed English",
- domains_of_use: null,
- speakers_worldwide: "2,500",
- second_language_speakers: null,
- semi_speakers: null,
- children: null,
- young_adults: null,
- older_adults: null,
- elders: null,
- ethnic_population: null,
- speakers_worldwide_year: null,
- bibliography_of_vitality: "",
- bibliography_of_context: "95800",
- bibliography_of_locations: "90420",
- user_submission: null,
- approved: 1,
- speakers_int_cache: 2500,
- has_audio_samples: 0,
- has_document_samples: 0,
- has_image_samples: 0,
- has_guide_samples: 0,
- has_video_samples: 0,
- search_simplified_level: "T",
- user_id: 1,
- code_val_cache: "jcs",
- has_link_samples: 0,
- submission_source_info: null,
- countries: [
  - {
    - id: 44,
    - name: "Jamaica",
    },
  ],
},
speakers: [
- {
  - id: 15549,
  - code_id: 7186,
  - speaker_number: "1000-9999",
  - speaker_number_text: "2,500",
  - second_language_speakers: null,
  - semi_speakers: null,
  - children: null,
  - young_adults: null,
  - older_adults: null,
  - elders: null,
  - ethnic_population: null,
  - date_of_info: null,
  - public_comment: "Approximately 2,500 Deaf children in Jamaica (2004 M. Kimball)",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 1511,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
- {
  - id: 15550,
  - code_id: 7186,
  - speaker_number: "1000-9999",
  - speaker_number_text: "2,500",
  - second_language_speakers: null,
  - semi_speakers: null,
  - children: null,
  - young_adults: null,
  - older_adults: null,
  - elders: null,
  - ethnic_population: null,
  - date_of_info: null,
  - public_comment: null,
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 89320,
  - preferred: 1,
  },
- {
  - id: 18757,
  - code_id: 7186,
  - speaker_number: null,
  - speaker_number_text: null,
  - second_language_speakers: null,
  - semi_speakers: null,
  - children: null,
  - young_adults: null,
  - older_adults: null,
  - elders: null,
  - ethnic_population: null,
  - date_of_info: null,
  - public_comment: null,
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 90420,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
- {
  - id: 26735,
  - code_id: 7186,
  - speaker_number: "10-99",
  - speaker_number_text: "40",
  - second_language_speakers: null,
  - semi_speakers: null,
  - children: null,
  - young_adults: null,
  - older_adults: null,
  - elders: null,
  - ethnic_population: null,
  - date_of_info: "2009",
  - public_comment: "This number refers only to the adults who use JCS. While some sources list 2,500, that number refers to the number of deaf children in Jamaica, as opposed to the number of people who actually use JCS. Most children use both JCS and Jamaican Sign Language (which is 75%% ASL). Some also use Signed English.",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 95800,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
- {
  - id: 27975,
  - code_id: 7186,
  - speaker_number: null,
  - speaker_number_text: null,
  - second_language_speakers: null,
  - semi_speakers: null,
  - children: null,
  - young_adults: null,
  - older_adults: null,
  - elders: null,
  - ethnic_population: null,
  - date_of_info: null,
  - public_comment: ""KS [Konchri Sain] is now an endangered language that coexists alongside two other signed communication systems which carry far more prestige in the community."",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 96661,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
],

}